Bug 88243 - [Perspectives] User is prompted to switch perspectives when opening in new window
Summary: [Perspectives] User is prompted to switch perspectives when opening in new wi...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 minor (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.1 RC1   Edit
Assignee: Nick Edgar CLA
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Keywords: polish
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Reported: 2005-03-16 15:29 EST by Randy Hudson CLA
Modified: 2005-05-27 11:37 EDT (History)
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Description Randy Hudson CLA 2005-03-16 15:29:29 EST 
For example, when invoking team synchronize, a popup message asks you if you 
want to switch to the "Team Perspective".  But, my preferences are set to open 
perspectives in a new workbench window, so the perspective is not being 
switched but opened.
Comment 1 Nick Edgar CLA 2005-03-16 15:44:30 EST 
I believe this is done in the Team support.

Randy, does Debug have a similar issue?
Comment 2 Michael Valenta CLA 2005-03-16 16:00:10 EST 
There is also this same question in CVS (Show Annotation) and PDE (creating a 
plugin project). I'm assigning this back to UI because this seems to be a 
general issue in the platform. Is it a simple case of changing the wording? 
Perhaps the text should be "Do you want to open this perspective now". This 
could cover both the case of opening it in a current window and opening it in 
a new winodw. Would this be enough?
Comment 3 Nick Edgar CLA 2005-03-16 16:16:18 EST 
Actually, it does just seem like a wording issue.

The prompt on project creation is in the workbench.
Comment 4 Randy Hudson CLA 2005-03-16 17:24:46 EST 
"Open" is more universal and also not as scary as "Switch".  In both cases, the 
current perspective is not lost/closed.
Comment 5 Nick Edgar CLA 2005-03-17 16:42:30 EST 
Starting to collect polish items.
Comment 6 Nick Edgar CLA 2005-05-18 10:58:46 EDT 
I've fixed up org.eclipse.ui.ide to use "open" instead of "switch" in the
Perspectives pref page and in the new project prompt.

Should also fix up Debug (bug 95767) and Team (bug 95771).
Comment 7 Nick Edgar CLA 2005-05-27 11:37:55 EDT 
Verified in I20050527-0900.
Verified the debug and team cases too.